“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.”
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“Where there is love there is life.”
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“Tis better to have loved and lost.
Than never to have loved at all.”“Because of a great love, one is courageous.”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.”
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.”
“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
“Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.”
“The older you get, the fewer things you really love.”
The Hurt Locker, 2008. Film.
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”
“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
“I love those who yearn for the impossible.”
“Love is metaphysical gravity.”
“It is impossible to love and to be wise.”
“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
“The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
“You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.”